David M. Austgen

Cargill, Inc. engages in the provision of food, agricultural, financial, and industrial products and services. It specializes in food service, agriculture, meat and poultry, transportation, pharmaceutical ingredients, and beauty products. The company was founded by William Wallace Cargill in 1865 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Fox Paine & Co. LLC is a private equity firm. The firm was founded in 1996 by Saul Fox and Dexter. The firm is headquartered in California, US.

OPX Biotechnologies, Inc. engages in the development and production of bio-based chemicals and fuels. The company was founded by Ryan T. Gill, Peter Long, and Michael Lynch in 2007 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

Maana, Inc. provides analytics platform that operationalizes data insight into line-of-business applications. The firm serves in the area of service and maintenance, sales, logistics, finance and risk and compliance. The company was founded by Babur Ozden and Donald Thompson in 2012 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Altira Group LLC (Altira Group) is a venture capital firm is founded in 1996 by Dirk McDermott. The firm is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

Gryphon Investors,LLC (Gryphon Investors) is a private equity firm founded in 1995 by R.David Andrews. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Total Safety U.S., Inc. engages in the provision of industrial safety services, equipment and compliance solutions. It includes gas detection, turnaround and shutdown, respiratory protection, confined space safety, in-plant services center, specialized safety personnel, professional and technical personnel, fire protection, fall protection, flare services, emergency response, training, compliance and certification, communications, medial management, equipment and technologies, and in-mine services center. The firm serves the solutions upstream, midstream, downstream, and other industries. The company was founded in December 1994 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

WireCo WorldGroup, Inc. engages in the manufacture and distribution of steel and synthetic ropes. Its industry solutions include cranes, engineered products, fishing, maritime, mining, oil and gas, wire products, WireCo structures, and yarns. The company was founded by J. P. Barclay, Sr. in 1931 and is headquartered in Prairie Village, KS.

Priority Power Management LLC provides energy management and consulting solution. It offers energy structuring, energy transition program management, market intelligence operations, and ESG (environmental, social, and governance) delivery services. The company was founded by Padraig Ennis in 2001 and is headquartered in Midland, TX.

Paine Schwartz Partners LLC (Paine Schwartz Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2006 by Dexter Paine, Kevin Michael Schwartz and Mitchell S. Presser. The firm is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Novomer, Inc. manufactures biodegradable plastics, polymers, and other chemicals from renewable substances. It specializes in commercializing a family of low-cost, high-performance, sustainable polymers and other chemicals. The company was founded by Geoffrey William Coates, Anthony Romey Eisenhut and Scott D. Allen in 2004 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

SCF Partners LLC (SCF Partners) is a private equity subsidiary of SCF Partners, Inc. founded in 1989 by L.E. Simmons. The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

National Renewable Energy Laboratory operates as laboratory for renewable energy and energy efficiency research and development. The company was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in Golden, CO.

Select Energy Services LLC operates as an oil and gas service company. The firm offers water solutions and environmental, well completions & intervention and facilities construction & engineering services. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

R360 Environmental Solutions LLC provides waste management services. Its services include landfill waste disposal, land treatment process, washouts, oil reclamation, transportation, closed loop equipment and waste collection, production water disposal, and R3 technology. The company was founded on July 2010 and is headquartered in The Woodlands, TX.

Nexus Bioenergy Corp. develops an anaerobic digester system that can process the waste to produce energy and recover the nutrients to produce organic fertilizers and soil amendment. The company was founded by Syed Reza, Lucas Loetscher and Sybil Sharvelle in 2015 and is headquartered in Superior, CO.

Divert, Inc. provides recycling solutions. It offers cardboard, organics and food rescue recycling solutions. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Concord, MA.

Ara Advisers LLC (Ara Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2017 by Charles Reed Cherington, Troy W Thacker and George Churchill Yong. The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Utility Global, Inc. engages in the provision of zero-carbon energy solutions. The company is headquartered in Provo, UT.

GIDARA Energy BV is a company based in Nootdorp, Netherlands that specializes in converting non-recyclable waste into advanced biofuels and circular chemicals using patented technologies. The Dutch company's high-temperature Winkler technology can produce valuable products and advanced biofuels for use in the road transport, marine, and aviation sectors, helping these sectors to reduce their use of fossil resources, reduce carbon emissions, and become more sustainable. GIDARA Energy's objective is to meet the demand for cleaner fuels, reduce carbon emissions, reduce waste, and create a more circular economy. The company was founded in 2019, and Norbert Walter Josef Kamp has been the CEO of the company since 2022.

White Deer Management LLC (White Deer Management) is a private equity firm founded in 2008 by Benjamin Allen Guill and Thomas Jeffery Edelman. The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas with additional office in New York.